Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. DEDICATION v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION xiii
6. Introduction: Paradigms of Violation 1
7. 1 Theorizing an Iconoclast 9
8. 2 Social Power, Body Power 20
9. 3 The Physician and the Prostitute 44
10. 4 Boy-Girl, Brother-Sister 68
11. 5 Rewriting Patriarchy 91
12. 6 Between Heaven and Hell 118
13. 7 Of Goddesses and Men 141
14. 8 Prison 159
15. 9 Dreams of Flying 177
16. 10 Toward an Arab Feminist Poetics 198
17. NOTES 209
18. WORKS CITED 245
19. INDEX 263